re: 100 mph winds batter England, Wales and Europe
"Got any other ideas?"
Yeah. Weather simply does stuff from time to time. It did it before we starting dumping crap in the atmosphere, it will do it long after we're all gone. Personally - I see an increase in the publicity and coverage of extreme weather, but not extreme weather per se. As long as there has been weather, there has been extreme weather - it's simply a symptom of nature.
DOug